One of our main themes is Uncertainty. In short, there is not enough of it, especially in Science. Which is to say, there is a surfeit of certainty. We drown in false […]

My favorite headline of late is from Stat, which I’ll reveal in a brief moment. First, as I was discovering that headline, I saw the site’s top crawl, which asked us to […]

Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford academic, took decades—decades, he says—to conclude he does not have free will. He chose now as the time to tell us of his decades-long, fruitless search for himself. […]

Question from Anon: Why are the left so afraid of climate change? What is they want to preserve exactly? The whole concept doesn’t pass the simplest credibility check. They want to preserve […]

“Random” numbers are in hot demand. They’re needed, for instance, in cryptography, to keep things like your bank account secure, and in science, where they’re used in simulating complex systems. Yet to […]

How can you tell if a vaccine for a bug is effective? It’s not so easy; indeed, it can be excruciatingly difficult. At the individual person level you’d need to measure all […]